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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 22, 1957
Page
5
A collection of jokes and spoof vignettes arrives as a humorous page. It features a medical officer testing a camp water supply with a sergeant’s quips about boiling filtering and drinking. Other items include a satirical court remark about a wife and 20 years of marriage and a traveler’s quip in Peru about crime and fortune.
A $300000 large radio telescope set on a remote New England hill will be the world’s largest. The six foot antenna and heavy aluminum dish will be motor driven to scan the sky. It will capture faint radio signals from cosmic gases and help map unseen heavenly bodies. The instrument promises a new window on the universe by tracing origins millions of years back.
This piece offers practical hockey guidance on mindset and technique. It urges players to stay aggressive and cheerful to boost endurance, avoid worrying about fatigue, and laugh off discomfort. It then advises avoiding unnecessary stickhandling in open ice and stresses practicing passes to the weak side, noting a 1919 historical fact about Sweden minting money from iron due to gold and silver shortages.
The 1956 Ottawa Agricultural Conference reviewed 1957 prospects. Canada expects continued strong demand, stable farm prices, and favorable trade conditions. Farm cash income should hold, with higher dairy revenue and Egg output up but prices down. labor shortages persist across farming, especially in dairying and stock farming, with seasonal hiring spikes.
Representatives acknowledge standards lag behind the West due to obsolete machinery and limited suppliers. Two major works serve a growing industry and a disbanded special board now under a consumer goods board. Shortages hit composing and typesetting, photo gravure, and offset presses. no photosetting or large scale electronic equipment. inks from the chemical industry deemed inadequate.
South Saskatchewan muskrat season extended to May 10 with no break. Game Commissioner E L Paynter announced that severe winter weather and early pelting made a single continuous season preferable. The change applies only to muskrat and not to other fur bearing animals.
A nostalgic portrait of George Formby the Lancashire comedian whose career since 1921 built on a homely voice and ukulele. The piece highlights his wife Beryl’s crucial help, their meeting at a tiny theatre, and Formby’s breakthrough when Newcastle managers offered a long term contract. It notes he once raced as a jockey and the landmark 1937 Royal Command stage performance alongside his father.
For non-swimmers, winter swimming lessons are a boon. Communities offer indoor facilities with graduated pools and supervision by qualified instructors to help learners through stages, ensuring safety for those who cannot yet handle deep water.
The Donaldson Line announced a direct Glasgow to Canadian Great Lakes service beginning with St Lawrence navigation in 1957. It will run to Toronto and Hamilton with calls at other Lakes ports and offer westbound and eastbound sailings about every three weeks. Existing passenger and freight routes to Quebec and Montreal will continue.
A collection of quotes on secrets and secrecy from Howell Salomon Ibn Gabirol Mary Baker Eddy Shakespeare Rochefoucauld Shaw and a note on saccharine sweetness. The text blends aphorisms on discretion honesty and perception with a quirky remark about sweetness.
Edmonton, Alberta leads intake with muskrat trappers. Population growth peaks align with the American Revolution, the Irish Famine, railway construction, and western settlement. In the current year foreign goods sales exceed Canadian exports by about $1 billion. Per capita federal spending in 1949 was $160. current figure is more than that, about $525.
The Civil Aeronautics Administration reports civil aircraft flights across the North Atlantic during July and August averaged 86 daily, about one every 16 or 17 minutes. The two month total reached 5,337 flights with 2,373 by US scheduled airlines, 9,412 by foreign airlines, and the rest by nonscheduled operators. Military, private, and business flights are not included.
A readable clue list for the weekly crossword with horizontal and vertical sections. Includes themes, definitions, and standard crossword entries such as fish, color, kingdom in Asia, and common words like trust, pole, atop, and mourn. Provides multiple numbered clues and abbreviations for a newspaper puzzle page.
A column mixes Paris dining lore at Tour dArgent with pressed duck records and notable diners. It references Duck numbers 147883 with Pierpont Morgan and 185197 for Queen Elizabeth III, then shifts to fashion at Dior and a playful Q&A on names, wealth, pills, marriage, longevity, diets, and dog breeds with assorted facts and quips from the era.
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